Archive for September, 2010
In the middle of everything.
Time flies. They always say that, but no, it doesn’t. It more likely sneaks past you like catburglar. It’s been five weeks, and I must say five pretty good weeks, since school began, and this is the last week before the mid-term break. More than slightly unnerving. It’s not that I’ve got subjects and projects to take care of; it’s more of how, in the long-term scheme of things, I was supposed to have had some things done, some things working, but they’re kind of lagging behind.
It’s only going to get more difficult from here, of course. The funny thing about school is how it never seems to get any less busy. It’s on a permanent upward gradient. There’s always something to busy yourself with.
I’m now reading A Heart So White. This is actually one of my texts. I like it so far, but it is extremely long and now I have to worry about finishing it.
I think I’ll have to draw up a list of things I want done by the end of the mid-term break. I’m too easily dazzled by a moderately large number of things to do. Keeping a list makes me pay attention. I know I have to finish at least one other text. I want to get up to speed with my FYP too. And there are at least two tests to worry about. Then I have to do two of my essays, which continue to make my brain hurt. As I think I said the last time, it’s mostly my fault for picking a… uhh… challenge.
Meanwhile though, I have to fend off two looming deadlines for this week. Which is partially why I’m typing so quickly, a phenomenon that you can’t see but can probably deduce from the way my words just seem to run on and on and on.
And a Sonic Youth song:
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Then there were a few things.
Oh hello.
As you may have noticed, I’ve been missing. I was sort of celebrating. It’s been a really excellent few days, although Conrad has returned to make my head hurt. I really shouldn’t have started on this and now I’m too stubborn to pull out of it. As Beckett would probably have said, the best thing to do would have been to avoid starting at all, but now that we’re here, it’s too late. So let’s make the best of it.
I wanted to show you my presents, which are not many, but here we go:
I quite love my fancy cards. They are so fancy. And one of them has Gauss on it. Which is I suppose a fairly scary person to have on your birthday card unless you are a mathematician, but it’s all right to be get a little scare now and then.
The bags are at the top are from my dad and they are lovely. I saw that they were not cheap and so I said, Why did you buy two of them, and he said, Well, it was at half-price, So you had to make it full price, and he didn’t answer me but I suppose he did.
The earphones, as you will know, are a purchase that I made on my own, but I included them here because I think of them as a birthday present for myself.
Of course I bought a new bow tie yesterday, so I think I’m actually just creating excuses for myself to stimulate the global economy.
And of course, the frog is just so happy.
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Happy Gloomsday!
Yeah, an oxymoron, I know. Indulged in a little Photoshop just to entertain myself and made these poster things with two of my favourite colour schemes just for the heck of it. I made four, actually, but two were really bad so I guillotine’d them.
Meanwhile, Happy Gloomsday!
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Reading, and other things.
I’ve never been a fast reader. I know quite a few who read a lot faster than I do. This semester, though, I basically don’t have much of a choice. So I’ve been going at a reasonable speed, trying to stay ahead of things, and it’s holding up so far. The task is made a little more difficult by the fact that I don’t actually have a very good textual memory, in that I find it very hard to place details in the books that I read. Quiz me about it a bit after and I’d already have forgotten–twice.
Still, I hope I cope.
I’m currently on Coetzee’s Disgrace. I’m just about to finish it actually. Then I’ll go about doing the presentation thing that we’re supposed to do in the tutorials. I will probably talk about animals.
Meanwhile, I think I will take a bit of a break from reading my texts and do some other book next, just for personal reading pleasure. I’ll figure out what that is soon.
On the topic of enjoying myself, I shall take myself to the pictures in the weekend, I hope, and catch a movie or something. Or maybe I should go loan some movie. I was thinking either an Ingmar Bergman or a David Lynch picture. I haven’t done a David Lynch film for a long time. I want to watch his most recent film, Inland Empire, so I might consider going to look for that.
On a side note, I might go to the PC Show/IT Show/PC Fair/IT Fair/Whateveryoucallit this weekend. I’m not looking for very much though it’s nice to drop by once in a while. I could do with a hard drive just to fill up the slot I have to spare. I could pick up a monitor because mine seems to be having a bit of a problem, though I don’t think that’s too great of a worry right now and that’s a few hundred dollars I don’t quite want to spend right now. Then there’s the issue of my speakers but I don’t think you can get very good deals on speakers at these events anyway, so it doesn’t really matter. In the end, it’s more of an excuse to actually go out and buy something, really.
Right, time to polish off Disgrace.
